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Error iterating files in directories

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Description

When I iterate over files to get their MIME type the magic library is able to provide the MIME type of some of the files and then it will through an error:

File "C:\Users\Chad\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\magic\magic.py", line 89, in from_file
return maybe_decode(magic_file(self.cookie, filename))
File "C:\Users\Chad\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\magic\magic.py", line 255, in magic_file
return magic_file(cookie, coerce_filename(filename))
File "C:\Users\Chad\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\magic\magic.py", line 196, in errorcheck_null
raise MagicException(err)
magic.magic.MagicException: b"line I64u: regex error 14 for `^[[:space:]]*class[[:space:]]+[[:digit:][:alpha:]:
]+[[:space:]]\{(.[\n])\}(;)?$', (failed to get memory)"
PS C:\Users\Chad\Documents\GitHub\Python_practice_scripts>

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Start by reproducing the directory iteration failure through magic.py: from_file at line 89, magic_file at line 255, and errorcheck_null at line 196. Compare files that succeed with the file that triggers the libmagic regex error; done means the failure is understood and MIME-type iteration has a verified outcome.

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